EATON TWP. — It was Emma Jankowski’s bee to win. After placing runner-up in the 2014 East District Spelling Bee and being crowned the winner of the 2015 East District Spelling Bee this year, taking home the first-place trophy for the district finals Friday was sweet success. Emma, an eighth-grader at Learwood Middle School in Read More…

AVON LAKE — Nine Avon Lake High School graduates have died while serving in the armed forces, but little is known about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two who graduated in the 1940s. Avon Lake at-large Councilman John Shondel, who retired from the Army Reserve in 1985 and is sergeant-at-arms for Avon Lake American Read More…

AVON LAKE — The city’s first culling operation at Weiss Field on Thursday night resulted in sharpshooters killing eight deer. Avon Lake Mayor Greg Zilka said it was a smooth process and culling will continue. “I wasn’t sure what they were going to get,” Zilka said. “But it was more than I was hoping for.” Read More…

AVON LAKE — The city’s first deer culling operation at Weiss Field began Thursday evening silently and with little attention. People walked their dogs and kids played basketball and used the skate park up until 6 p.m. when police arrived, blocked off entrances and asked everyone to leave. Elyria resident Larry Best, who brings his Read More…

AVON LAKE — A culling operation will occur today at Weiss Field with sharpshooters hired through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The announcement comes three days after City Council passed a law allowing sharpshooting on public property. Public Works Director Joseph Reitz said shooters will meet with the Avon Lake Police Department for a briefing Read More…

AVON LAKE — The city will move forward with a program aimed at killing deer at Weiss Field and the city landfill before the month’s end. City Council approved an ordinance Monday allowing sharpshooters hired through state or federal agencies to conduct culling operations on city property. Council also approved a service agreement with the Read More…

AVON LAKE — In an attempt to hold partying, noisy, disruptive or filthy neighbors accountable for repeated offenses, City Council is considering a nuisance ordinance. The ordinance, sponsored by Council President Martin O’Donnell, would provide the city with a way to penalize owners of businesses or homes whose occupants engage in nuisance activities. A wide Read More…

AVON LAKE — Sharpshooters armed with rifles are a step closer to killing deer on city property. Members of the city’s Safety and Environmental Committees on Thursday approved amending an ordinance passed in July that allows residents to apply for municipal deer control permits through the Ohio Division of Wildlife. The original ordinance, which let Read More…

AVON LAKE — If a natural gas conversion occurs at the NRG Energy power plant, chances are a few dozen people will lose jobs. NRG Energy has talked for months of building a 20-mile natural gas pipeline from Grafton to Avon Lake to switch from its coal-fired capabilities as a way to comply with strict Read More…

The city of Lorain has a median household income of less than $24,000. Look to the east to more affluent Avon Lake, and that figures jumps to nearly $60,000. Under Gov. John Kasich’s proposed two-year budget, that would mean it makes perfect sense when looking at state funding to cut education aid to wealthy Avon Read More…